11-03-2012, 04:47 AM
If I remember rightly this is the set with the nasty 3rd harmonic tuning cap hidden down behind the lopt.. and on one we had fun finding it (thats why the set sticks in my memory) don't even try it without replacing the **** because if it's short it can knock over the transformer.
I'm sure there was a Television article back in the mid 70's on these, but theres really not that much unusual inside.. I used to get these kinds of sets chucked at me as an apprentice, along with a whole warehouse of vc53's (loved them) and the dregs of our colour rentals.. the "last legs" ones.. fix and sell £20. I did my apprentice stuff in a dying trade.. I finished when the shop closed, by which time there were no shops like us left. Rather pointless couple of years learning a dead trade. There must have been people starting in the textile mills at the same time who had the same experience.. It's hard to realise how manufacturing and skilled trades were decimated in the 80's unless you had just left school and were looking for a career in anything but "casual labour" service industries.. That opportunity was denied to my generation. Now I'm our town valve guitar amp guru, and old computer last chance saloon.. but not for much longer.......
I spoke to my friend I mentioned, and he looked a little sick when I told him roughly how much a Ultra branded 24" 3500 with a good tube is worth these days.. He only slung it out a couple of years ago because it had no a/v inputs.. It was working fine!!! some people eh?
I'm sure there was a Television article back in the mid 70's on these, but theres really not that much unusual inside.. I used to get these kinds of sets chucked at me as an apprentice, along with a whole warehouse of vc53's (loved them) and the dregs of our colour rentals.. the "last legs" ones.. fix and sell £20. I did my apprentice stuff in a dying trade.. I finished when the shop closed, by which time there were no shops like us left. Rather pointless couple of years learning a dead trade. There must have been people starting in the textile mills at the same time who had the same experience.. It's hard to realise how manufacturing and skilled trades were decimated in the 80's unless you had just left school and were looking for a career in anything but "casual labour" service industries.. That opportunity was denied to my generation. Now I'm our town valve guitar amp guru, and old computer last chance saloon.. but not for much longer.......
I spoke to my friend I mentioned, and he looked a little sick when I told him roughly how much a Ultra branded 24" 3500 with a good tube is worth these days.. He only slung it out a couple of years ago because it had no a/v inputs.. It was working fine!!! some people eh?
